An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6320-01-207-0636
NSN 5915-00-949-1223
NSN 6220-01-123-9290
NSN 4140-00-150-8265
NSN 6610-00-936-4759
NSN 6135-00-968-8594
NSN 5855-01-448-9794
NSN 5910-00-971-1338
NSN 5905-01-380-2322
NSN 5905-00-068-2993
NSN 5905-01-054-9784
NSN 5945-01-473-1821